News from February 2019
By DOL Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: EL PASO, TX - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Bruce Foods Corporation - a Mexican food manufacturer based in El Paso, Texas - after an employee suffered an amputation. The company now faces $194,350 in fines.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: Good morning. Today we welcome Ambassador Robert E. Lighthizer, United States Trade Representative to discuss U.S.-China Trade.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: FBI Honors Founder of Puget Sound-Area Non-Profit Kids Without Borders.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: On Thursday, February 28 at 11: 0 am, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), House Judiciary Subcommittee Chairs Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) and David N. Cicilline (D-RI), and U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) will announce the introduction of a package of bills to end the use of forced arbitration in consumer, antitrust, employment, and civil rights disputes. The legislation would greatly restore Americans’ rights to seek justice through the courts.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the Opioid Detection Challenge, a $1.55 million USD global prize competition, was launched by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T), in collaboration with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the Office of National Drug Control...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: SILT, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management announced today that Larry Sandoval is the new field manager for the Colorado River Valley Field Office based in Silt.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Bakary Camara, 32, of Philadelphia, was convicted today by a jury of one count of conspiracy to produce identification documents without lawful authority, one count of bribery of an agent from PennDOT, two counts of misuse of a Social Security number, and one count of aggravated identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: Defendant, a Registered Sex Offender, Traded Child Pornography While on Probation for Possessing Child Pornography.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - On Wednesday, Feb. 27, the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, announced that a Philadelphia man, was convicted by a jury of one count of conspiracy to produce identification documents without lawful authority, one count of bribery of an agent from...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
Release: Congressman Mike Quigley (D-IL), Chair of the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on "Election Security: Ensuring the Integrity of U.S. Election Systems".
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: Greenville, South Carolina - United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that eleven individuals have been charged in a multi-count federal indictment for their roles in a wide-ranging conspiracy to import and possess with intent to distribute heroin, cocaine, and fentanyl and other related...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
Release: Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), Chair of the Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on "The President's 2019 National Emergency Declaration Circumventing Congress to Build a Border Wall & its Effect on Military Construction and Readiness".
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: DES MOINES, Iowa-On Feb. 25, 2019, Joel Thomas Augard, 50, formerly of Des Moines, appeared before United States District Court Chief Judge John A. Jarvey and was sentenced to forty years in prison for two counts of production of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: Earlier today, in federal court in Central Islip, Brian Newton was sentenced to 19 years’ of imprisonment by United States District Judge Joseph F. Bianco following the defendant’s guilty plea on May 3, 2018 to transportation of child pornography in interstate and foreign commerce. As part of his sentence...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee held a field hearing Tuesday at St. Thomas More Catholic Academy in Washington D.C. to discuss the positive impact that school choice, specifically through the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP), has had on students and their families. Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) also participated in the hearing.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: The 2019 Cape Hatteras National Seashore camping season at the Oregon Inlet, Cape Point, Frisco, and Ocracoke campgrounds will begin on Friday, April 12.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: Hattiesburg, Miss - Howard Randall Thomley, 60, of Hattiesburg, pled guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett to a Criminal Information charging him with health care fraud for his role in a $200 million scheme to defraud health care benefit programs, including TRICARE, announced U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: Brunswick, GA - Six federal inmates face having more time added to their prison sentences after lewdly exposing themselves to prison staff.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: MACON - An Albany man was indicted on bankruptcy fraud charges this month by a federal grand jury, said Charles “Charlie" Peeler, the United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia. Timothy Wayne Giles, 39, of Albany, GA was indicted on one count of False Bankruptcy Declaration for allegedly...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. - On Saturday, Feb. 16, 2019 the National Park Service began accepting applications for noncommercial river trip permits to raft the Colorado River through Grand Canyon National Park. The permits are for launch dates within calendar year 2020.
